 mikef1Mike
join:2004-10-28
Littlestown, PA | reply to Cuchulainn
Re: MD Sucks
I did, just a mile or two over the mason dixon line some years ago. I started the process of starting an internet services business last year. Many of my local customers are in carroll county and ideally the business would be in CC too. Once the tech tax passed in the early morning hours of the special session without debate or discussion I quickly made the decision to base the business out of PA.
Last fall, work was halted because the Department of the Environment decided the cooperative needed $1-a-foot annual permits to cross wetlands such as rivers, even though the lines are going along existing roads.
If this project is anything like the fiber project I have been involved in, the fiber is usually hung on poles owned by BGE or Verizon, or run thru their conduit. Poles that carry electric, phone and usually cabtv cables. I would be interested to know if these fiber runs are using current infrastructure. If it is then I call BS on what the DoE was trying to do.
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